The Wednesday Play

- Season 9

(1969)

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War.

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.